Archive for the ‘Rescue’ Category
Molly
Molly – a very, very bright star on Planet Guinea
Jackie wanted me to publish Molly’s story in the hope that if her experience should help just one guinea pig in some way Molly has done her bit for Pigdom. I suspect that by merely keeping the Piggy Public entertained and interested with this story Molly [...]
January 25, 2012
Posted in: One Is Not Enough, Planet Guinea, Rescue, The Pig Issue 
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Just Another Year?
That was 2011! Just another year, or was it? For me the highs were our seventh Piggy PM held at Active Vetcare with the support, as always, of The Hay Experts, Gorgeous Guineas and the band of enthusiastic volunteers. 2011 also saw the second Guinea Pig Welfare Wheek which reached a larger number of guineas [...]
December 31, 2011
Posted in: Miscellaneous, Planet Guinea, Rescue No Comments
Blowing One’s Own Trumpet…
There is no point in blowing your own trumpet if no one is listening but if they are then… Many thanks for every one’s Emails etc over the years, but this one in particular summed up everything I stand for and want to represent: Some Northern guineas have the good fortune to belong to a [...]
November 3, 2011
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Moving Swiftly On…
Reading Guinea Pig Rescue have made the difficult, but correct, decision to close the rescue in its current form. After 10 years of rehabilitating and rehoming guinea pigs I feel that the time has come for moving on with our guinea pig community. There will always be a need for rescues as long as their [...]
July 28, 2011
Posted in: Micellaneous, Planet Guinea, Rescue No Comments
Reading Guinea Pig Rescue website
Guinea Pig Welfare is becoming a less locally based website as time goes on and we have made the decision to move the locally based Reading Guinea Pig Rescue website to a different hosting.
The www.readingguineapigrescue.co.uk domain now points to the new site. Hopefully this will make things a little clearer too.
Our other associated domain names [...]
October 2, 2010
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Planet Gorgeous: Rescue and Fostering- one and the same?
Rescue is the place where the guineas first land from wherever and are assessed by the head honcho, who then decides what each guinea needs. If the rescue has a foster-carer, they need to decide what criteria they use to decide which guineas they keep and which go to be fostered. Also, what “rules and regulations” [...]
May 3, 2010
Posted in: Planet Gorgeous, Planet Guinea, Rescue No Comments
Guinea Pig Welfare Pigfesto 2010
Read through the Guinea Pig Welfare Pigfesto to find out what the essentials are for providing a guinea pig friendly home; by putting these into practise guinea pigs are “allowed to be guinea pigs”, which in turn impacts on health and wellbeing:
A correctly balanced diet including fresh water. Diet should be made up of 70% [...]
April 3, 2010
Posted in: Behaviour, Rescue No Comments
Thistle Cavies’ February Newsletter
Thank you to Thistle Cavies for letting us share their February news letter. It goes to show that, like RGPR, Thistle would rather guinea pigs are surrendered sooner than later. Where guinea pigs are purchased from a reputable rescue/source one would hope that the commitment needed is made very clear to potential adopters.
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February 24, 2010
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